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How to write for percussion : a comprehensive guide to percussion composition /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; How to Write for Percussion; Copyright; Contents; Foreword to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; About the Video Companion; Introduction; How This Book Is Organized; Instruments Covered; Working with Percussionists; Location Specifics; The Value of Not Reading This Book; Chapter 1 General Framework; A Dysfunctional Family; Comparison of Family Relationships; The Problem of Pitch; The Pitches of Percussion; The Validations and Limitations of Novelty; Three Methods for Indeterminately Pitch Instruments; The Written/Improv Divide
- Expanding the Color Palette (to Shrink the Setup)The Value of Improvised and Non-Notated Music; Social Composition; Write for People, Not Sounds; Write What Is Wanted, Not What to Do; Working with Percussionists; Chapter 2 General Logistics; Instrument Choice and Management; Six Stories: Three Sad and Three Happy; Why Use Fewer Instruments?; How to Consolidate; Inexpensive Instruments; Exotic Instruments; Electronic Percussion; Multiple Options for a Specified Instrument; Instruments Percussionists May Not Play; Multiple Percussionists; Section Setup; Orchestra; Wind Ensemble; Broadway Pit
- Drum Corps and Marching BandsSpecialists; Non-Percussionists Playing Percussion; Chairs and Stands; Issues of Playability; Excessive Polyphony; How Fast Percussionists Can Play; Unidiomatic Writing-Music That Often Requires Memorization; Dynamics; Reaching the Instruments; Instruments with Pedals; Physical Exertion and Shaking; Working with Headphones or Headset Microphones; Chapter 3 General Notation; Basics of Percussion Parts and Scores; Instrument List; Instrument Key; Setup Diagram; Language; Parts; Cues; Percussion in the Conductor's Score; Dynamics; Designing a Notational System
- ClefsStaves; Noteheads; Mixing Determinately and Indeterminately Pitched Instruments; Key Signatures; What Goes Where on the Staff; The Chicken or the Egg?; Unspecified Instruments (Indeterminate Instrumentation); How Much to Notate; Systems of Notation for Which There Is No Standard; Return to a "Normal" Method of Playing; Note Length, Articulation, and Phrasing; Note-Length Chart; Exact or Inexact Note-Length Indications; Muting (Muffling, Dampening); Dead Stroke; Damper Pedals; Rolls; Notations That Are Not Recommended; Symbol Notation; Altered Keyboard Notation (Timbre-Staff)
- Chapter 4 BeatersTo Indicate or Not to Indicate?; Beater Lingo; Logistic Beater Issues; Sticks; Mallets; Triangle Beaters and Knitting Needles; Brushes; Rute Sticks; Chime Hammers (Tubular Bell Hammers); Superball Mallet; Beaters as Instruments; Hands; Bows; Chapter 5 Keyboard Percussion; Ranges and Construction; Writing for Keyboard Percussion; Stacked Instruments; Multiple Players; Extended Techniques; Miscellaneous; Chapter 6 Drums; Sticks on Drums; Mallets on Drums; Hands on Drums; Playing on the Rim or Shell; Beating Spot; Mutes; Pitch Bending; Drum Size; Two-Headed Drums